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CVE-2025-12069: WP Global Screen Options <= 0.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Screen Options Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-04 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The WP Global Screen Options plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to missing nonce validation on the `updatewpglobalscreenoptions` action handler. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify global screen options for all users via a forged request granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• stiand WP Global Screen Options: through 0.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-global-screen-options/tags/0.2/wp_global_screen_options.php#L16
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dae86d7c-3bbb-4872-acd7-08ff8d437b8e?source=cve

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